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Systems Turn In A Good Year for Big Blue

January 30, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

You can’t turn back the hands of time, but if you are lucky enough in business, you can continue to find some modicum of relevance that outlasts your initial success and even adapt to new conditions as they inevitably and often unexpectedly change. …

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The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue

October 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …

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IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project

October 20, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of high performance computing would have some sort of acceleration. …

Cloud

Nutanix For Sale, And The Only Buyer Might Be A Big Cloud

October 17, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

As you might expect, we believe in the strength, resilience, and utility of platforms and we carefully watch as companies emerge and try to commercialize them. …

Compute

Lenovo Plays The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game, In Systems

September 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It has been nearly four decades since the Chinese Academy of Sciences handed Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui $25,000 to help found Legend, originally a maker of TV sets that, in the wake of the success of the IBM PC and the Apple II computer, decided maybe becoming a maker of PCs was a better idea. …

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IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing

September 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 14

Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …

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Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads

August 16, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …

Compute

IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch

July 26, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Back in early July, we covered the launch of IBM’s entry and midrange Power10 systems and mused about how Big Blue could use these systems to reinvigorate an HPC business rather than just satisfy the needs of the enterprise customers who run transaction processing systems and are looking to add AI inference to their applications through matrix math units on the Power10 chip. …

Compute

Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems

July 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …

Compute

Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10?

July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

The “Cirrus” Power10 processor from IBM, which we codenamed for Big Blue because it refused to do it publicly and because we understand the value of a synonym here at The Next Platform, shipped last September in the “Denali” Power E1080 big iron NUMA machine. …

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